Re: Help: Which Fedora distro fits in my pc?

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:01:03 -0400, wrote:

Michael Black wrote:
ray (ray@xxxxxxxxxx) writes:
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:27:38 -0500, General Schvantzkopf wrote:

On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:10:08 -0600, ray wrote:

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:06:41 +0800, Amy Lee wrote:

Hello,

My computer is pretty old.
CPU: P3 1GHz
RAM: 384 MB
HD: 80 GB
GPU: Geforce 2 MX 400 64 MB

I wanna know which Fedora most fits in my pc. I hope that this distro
can run well in my box and won't take much resource.

Thank you very much~

Regards,

Amy Lee
If you do succeed in loading Fedora, you'll definitely want to use one
of the 'lighter' desktops like XFCE or Enlightenment rather than KDE or
Gnome. I would suggest you try Elive instead - is there a particular
reason you want Fedora?
I have one old laptop with a 500MHz PIII and 384M and it's usable for
basic tasks like running Evolution and Firefox using Fedora Core with
Gnome. The right solution is to add some RAM, 512M will run much better,
784 will be even better and 1G would be great.
500hmz is a far cry from 100mhz. With Gnome or KDE it will crawl.

Of course, the original poster is asking about a 1GHz computer, which
is merely twice the speed of a 500MHz Pentium, and likely it really
works out to less since I/O is a factor.

Michael



Some of the schools here that all run GNU/Linux on their server and all
workstations, run Fedora. We take donated computers of 500 mhz to
1.5Ghz, and the most RAM on any is 512MB on a few teacher systems, while
all students do fine with 256MB.

Just now, here in my home lab, I have quite a few fully functional
desktops, 500 Mhz to 1.5Ghz systems, that have only 256 to 512 MB RAM.
Most run Mepis, some run PCLinuxOS-p93, Kubuntu-5.04 (Compaq Presario
5000) due to weirdness with the onboard video.

when I install a Geforce 4 mx 64 video card, the Compaqs work with much
more distros.

If that is an intel chipset, installing the newest, latest intel driver
works much better.



It might have something to do with Xorg. Comments welcome.

Bottom line is that, except for Compaq, every system I have booted with
GNU/Linux, since 1997, has run fine. I do demonstrations several times
each month at major retail chain stores. So, that number is in the
thousands.

Thats the facts.

.

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